Job Title: Finance Business PartnerJob DescriptionThis role is integral to the day-to-day operations of the Contract Logistics Warehouse business. The finance business partner provides financial expertise, support, and collaboration to operations. The role includes evaluating investment opportunities, risk assessments, and process and cost savings to ensure profitable, sustainable results while maintaining cost controls and ensuring financial health.
Responsibilities- Prepare accurate and timely customer invoicing, including detailed backup data and KPIs, ensuring integrity in Customer Invoicing and P&L entries.
- Produce customer analysis and reports, ensuring accuracy for the Operational Management team and Customers.
- Understand contractual obligations to customers, including factors like CPI, liability, termination, invoicing, and develop external customer reporting accordingly.
- Collaborate closely with the AR team to monitor customer payments and support credit limit requests and extended payment term business cases.
- Monitor spend against budget/forecast and provide variance analysis with detailed explanations and costings, ensuring transactions are reconciled.
- Administer daily timekeeping records and ensure accuracy in payroll submission, reporting payroll costings accurately against Customer Profit and Loss accounts.
- Maintain cost accuracy and control the administration of purchases, resolving purchase ledger queries in a timely manner.
- Design, develop, and prepare accurate weekly and monthly management accounts, including Profit and Loss statements and Balance Sheet reconciliations.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to operations, providing actionable insights for strategic decision-making.
- Design and produce financial tracking tools to assist operations in maintaining budgets and support business implementations and capital investments.
- Evaluate investment opportunities objectively and prepare business case applications for capital expenditure, leases, and long-term commitments.
- Implement and develop processes and procedures to ensure a lean, controlled working methodology, identifying and driving cost-saving initiatives.
- Increase financial and commercial awareness, providing training to non-financial stakeholders.
- Prepare monthly rolling forecasts and annual target setting.
- Support operations in developing and monitoring KPIs and productivity to challenge profitability.
- Attend meetings as requested and prepare ad-hoc financial reporting for operations as needed.
- Provide ad-hoc monthly and weekly analysis and other duties as required.
Essential Skills- Forecasting
- Revenue Recognition
- Cost Reduction
- FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Controlling
- Logistics
- Business Analysis
- KPI Analysis
- Cost Control
- Process Improvement
- Capital Planning
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Profit and Loss Analysis
- Capital Management
Additional Skills & Qualifications- CPA certification
- Experience in Lean Sigma Six
- Experience in logistics and freight forwarding
Work EnvironmentThe position requires 40 hours per week, with working hours from 9am to 5pm. The role is hybrid, requiring three days on-site at the office located in Mississauga, Ontario. There is a possibility of overtime. The dress code is business casual. The team consists of five other Finance Business Partners.
Job Type & LocationThis is a Permanent position based out of Mississauga, ON.
Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $76000.00 - $96000.00/yr.
Workplace TypeThis is a hybrid position in Mississauga,ON.
